Coach-latch.



W. F. HAMPTON.

COACH LA"CH. APPLICATION FILED I-PR. a0. 1915.

July 20, 1915.

Patented;

" able others skilled in the art to which it FFTQE.

WILLARD F. HAMPTON, 0F LYONS, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF T0 FRED LQilil'G,

01? LYONS, KANSAS.

COACH-LATCH.

Specification of Letters latent. Patented July 20, 1915.,

Application filed. April 30, 1915. fierial No. 25,056.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, WILLARD F. HAMPTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lyons, in the county of Rice and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Coach-Latch; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en- P pertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improved latch for coach, automobile, or other vehicle doors, and an object of the invention is to provide a latch of this nature comprising improved features of construction.

In practical fields the details of construction may necessitate alterations, falling within the scope of what is claimed.

The invention comprises further features and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, shown in the drawings and claimed.

In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a view in perspectiveshowing a portion of a coach, automobile, or vehicle body, showing parts broken away and in section illustrating the latch used in connection with the door there of. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation and partly in section showing the latch member as having been thrown against the tension of the spring. F ig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the latch member.

Referring more especially to the drawing, 1 designates a portion of a coach, automobile, or other vehicle body, provided with a suitable door 2 hinged at 3 and designed to swing in the door opening 4 of the body, and being limited in its closed position by the flange 5 adjacent the door opening. The free edge portion of the door is provided with a suitable keeper slot 6. The wall of the body is supplied with a pocket 7 and an extension pocket 8, and mounted in guides 9" is a plunger 9 having a knob 10, and mounted on the plunger between one of the guides and a collar 11 of the plunger is a coil spring 12, acting to hold the plunger in its uppermost position as shown in Fig. 1. A latch member 13 is provided having two upwardly and laterally extending arms 14 and 15, and is pivoted at 16 in said pocket 7. The lower end or extremity of the plunger has pivoted to it a pair of links 18, which in turn are pivoted at 18 to the extremity of the arm 15. The pivot 16 is considerably below said arm, so that by pressure upon the arm 15, the other arm 14 willbe thrown upwardly, in order to disengage the enlargement from-the keeper slot to permit the door to swmg open. The lateral portion of the arm 14 has an enlargement 19, which is beveled at 20, so that a portion of the coach door will slip by the same, so that the enlargement can enter'the keeper slot 6. Ar

ranged in the pocket 7 is a bar 21 arching over the arm 14. This bar not only guides the arm 14, but is disposed Iangularly as shown, and shaped as illustrated at 22, so that the rear portion of the vertical part of the arm 14 will engage at 22 to limit the.

latch member in its pivotal movement rearwardly. The forward edge of the arm 14 contacts with the forward part of the bar 21, thereby limiting the latch member in its pivotal movement forwardly.

The invention'having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. In combination with a coach body having a pocket and provided with a hinged door having a keeper slot, a latch member comprising a body being shaped to form two upwardly and opposite laterally extendlng arms, means for pivoting the latch member considerably below said arms and in said pocket, one of said arms having at its free end a beveled enlargement to engage the keeper slot to latch the door, and means arching over one of said arms to limit the latch member in its pivotal movement in either direction, and a spring tensioned plunger connected to the other arm for operating the latch member.

2. In combination with a coach body having a pocket and provided with a hinged door having a keeper slot, a latch member comprising a body being shaped to form two upwardly and opposite laterally extending arms, means for pivoting the latch member considerably below said arms and in said pocket, one of said arms having at its free end a beveled enlargement to engage the keeper slot to latch the door, and means arching over one of said arms to limit the latch member in its pivotal movement in either direction, and a spring tensioned plunger connected to the other arm for operating the latch member, said guiding and in ivsstimony whereaf FL have signeei my nmne to this specification in. the presence of zws subscribing Witnesses WELLARD F. HAMFTON.

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